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<hr><div align="left"><font face="Arial"  color="#010101"  size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#010101">The Pyscripter editor supports code and debugger hints.&nbsp; These hints are displayed when you 
let the mouse hover on a Python code identifier.&nbsp; </span></font></div><div align="left"><font face="Arial"  color="#010101"  size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#010101"><br></span></font></div><div align="left"><font face="Arial"  color="#010101"  size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#010101"><i>a)&nbsp; Code Hints </i></span></font></div><div align="left"><font face="Arial"  color="#010101"  size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#010101"><br></span></font></div><div align="left"><font face="Arial"  color="#010101"  size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#010101">These hints display information about the definition of the identifier under the mouse i.e. 
module name and line number in which the identifier is defined.&nbsp; Additional information is 
displayed according to the type of the identifier, e.g. </span></font><font face="Arial"  size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000">parameters of </span></font><font face="Arial"  color="#010101"  size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#010101">functions,&nbsp; superclasses of 
classes or the type of variables.&nbsp; When the source code of the module in which the identifier 
was defined is available, the hint presents a hyperlink which, if clicked, takes you to the 
definition.&nbsp; This works in a similar way to the </span></font><a href="finddefinition.htm"><font face="Arial"  color="#0000ff"  size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#0000ff"><u>Find Definition</u></span></font></a><font face="Arial"  color="#010101"  size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#010101"> 
feature and and the found 
definition is added to the Find Definition browsing history.&nbsp; </span></font></div><div align="left"><font face="Arial"  color="#010101"  size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#010101"><br></span></font></div><div align="left"><font face="Arial"  color="#010101"  size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#010101"><i>b) Debugger hints</i></span></font></div><div align="left"><font face="Arial"  color="#010101"  size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#010101"><br></span></font></div><div align="left"><font face="Arial"  color="#010101"  size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#010101">While debugging code hints are not available, but instead debugger hints are displayed. 
These hints show the value and type of the identifier under the cursor. Debugger hints work 
also with expressions e.g. sys.path[1].&nbsp; For debugger expression hints place the cursor on a 
closing parenthesis ')' or square bracket ']'</span></font></div><div align="left"><font face="Arial"  color="#010101"  size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#010101"><br></span></font></div><div align="left"><font face="Arial"  color="#010101"  size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#010101">Note:&nbsp; Code and/or debugger hints can be disabled from the </span></font><a href="ideoptions.htm"><font face="Arial"  color="#0000ff"  size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#0000ff"><u>IDE 
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